Brain Attack (WAS: Harry and Hagrid (re: Two Crazy Theories)

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No: HPFGUIDX 106734

vmonte wrote:
Or how about Ron's brain attack?  This
> > could be another way for JKR to bring back info from the past.
> > If the brain belonged to Godric then Ron might have important
> > information to impart and a penseive could be used for all to see
> > that past. (Why else would add the brain attack anyway.)


Charme responded:
> That brain attack is a curious occurance, isn't it?  I remember 
Madame
> Pomphrey stating in OoP that "thoughts" left deeper scarring than 
anything
> else, so it makes you wonder what exactly Ron experienced.  It 
also apparent
> it wasn't an enjoyable experience - what if it didn't belong to 
Godric?

I'm quite fascinated by all the speculation about *whose* brain 
attacked Ron and what thoughts he has been scarred with because I 
see the brain attack primarily as a metaphorical event, part of the 
package of metaphors that comprises the DoM sequence.  Thoughts 
leave scars, according to Madam Pomfrey, but Ron's scars seem to be 
on his arms, and not in his brain, so it may be something of a leap 
for the thoughts to have taken root.  Ron's injury -- in which the 
tentacles of thought enveloped him and left him unable to move, 
seems appropriate to him, since he's been plagued for years with 
thoughts of his inadequacy in comparison to his older brothers, 
scarring him into refusing even to try to compete.

Also, Ron "left the hospital wing completely cured three days before 
the end of term."  As the antidote to his welts was to apply copious 
amounts of "Dr Ubbly's Oblivious Unction" it sounds as though the 
cure took away any memory of any extraneous thoughts.

But I like the "Godric Gryffindor's brain" theory anyway.

Debbie
whose post about the brain metaphor was 82816